The sensitivity of business capital formation to its user cost plays a key role in the analysis of many economic issues. Although this elasticity has been the subject of an enormous number of studies, a consensus remains elusive. We develop an estimation strategy that exploits panel data in an...

I consider a panel vector autoregressive (panel VAR) model with cross sectional dependence of the model disturbances that can be characterized by a first order spatial autoregressive process. I derive asymptotic properties of a constrained maximum likelihood estimator that uses a consistent...

Standard macroeconomic forecasting indicators and techniques perform poorly in predicting inflation in the short-run. In contrast, the present paper shows that microeconomic price data placed in an empirical framework rooted in (S,s) pricing theory convey extra information on inflation dynamics....